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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio. And how the tech

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Speaker 1: are you. It's time for the tech news for Thursday,

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Speaker 1: August twenty fourth, twenty twenty three. So last night here

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Speaker 1: in the United States, there were a couple of important

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Speaker 1: political events, and don't worry, this is not going to

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Speaker 1: be about the actual politics. Rather it's to talk about

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Speaker 1: TV versus online. So last night, the Republican candidates who

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Speaker 1: are vying for the party's nomination for the upcoming general election,

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Speaker 1: with one quite notable exception, all appeared in a debate

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Speaker 1: on Fox News. I haven't seen reliable figures about how

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Speaker 1: many people actually watch the deb I did see one

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Speaker 1: piece that said it was twenty three point nine million people,

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Speaker 1: but I haven't found any corroborating reports on that, and

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Speaker 1: this was not a site I was familiar with, so

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Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable actually using that as a benchmark. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people were watching it. However,

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Speaker 1: we do know how many people saw although maybe they

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Speaker 1: only briefly saw the counter programming to the debate former

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Speaker 1: President Donald Trump appeared in an interview with Tucker Carlson,

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Speaker 1: and this was posted on X formerly known as Twitter,

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Speaker 1: So that interview gathered seventy four million impressions. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. If you scrolled past the interview, if it

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Speaker 1: past it, that still counted as an impression. If you

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Speaker 1: don't want to see this, that still counted as an impression.

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Speaker 1: If you watched it on your phone, then turned it

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Speaker 1: it again, that actually counted as two impressions. So what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that even if the GOP debate on

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Speaker 1: Fox News quote unquote only got around twenty four million viewers,

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Speaker 1: the seventy four million impressions of Donald Trump's interview on

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Speaker 1: X doesn't actually mean that seventy four million people tuned

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Speaker 1: into the thing. So this really drives home the double

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Speaker 1: edged sword of online content. Content providers can sometimes count

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Speaker 1: the briefest of impressions the same as they would for

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Speaker 1: someone who watched a piece from beginning to end. If

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Speaker 1: they say it's a view. Even if you only saw

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Speaker 1: ten seconds of it, and it's like an hour long program.

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Speaker 1: That's an issue, right. It doesn't come across as being

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Speaker 1: very honest and on it. I believe in the long

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Speaker 1: is the way things have been done online for quite

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Speaker 1: some time. And what do I know, I just make

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Speaker 1: the stuff. The Taiwanese Semiconductor Fabrication Company TSNA is in

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Speaker 1: the news again here in the United States. You might

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Speaker 1: recall that TSMC is building out a facility in the US,

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Speaker 1: specifically in Arizona. So earlier this summer, TSMC officials said

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Speaker 1: that this facility is being delayed because, in their own words,

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Speaker 1: they could not find suitable workers in the United States

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Speaker 1: this prompted US workers and politicians to object. Some said

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Speaker 1: TSMC was really more concerned with bringing over a workforce

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Speaker 1: for these delays. The workers so, according to multiple although

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Speaker 1: unnamed workers, TSMC management has failed to provide critical information

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Speaker 1: They also said that the construction site itself is unsafe,

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Speaker 1: TSMC has denied any wrongdoing and says the company is

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Speaker 1: a lot of stories I cover in the show tend

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Speaker 1: to fall into the let's warn you about AI category,

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Speaker 1: one company is absolutely raking in the cash thanks to

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Speaker 1: What do you have after you've subtracted all the costs

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Speaker 1: this gravy train is just going to keep on chugging along,

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Speaker 1: primarily due to the demand for AI chips in things

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Speaker 1: becoming a corporate powerhouse, so to speak. Apple did a

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Speaker 1: quick recap. The right to repair movement aims to force

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Speaker 1: It is one hundred and twenty nine dollars in ninety

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Speaker 1: that will contain ten classic Atari titles, including Yars Revenge.

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Speaker 1: Fun fact, the game designer who created Yurs Revenge would

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Speaker 1: go on to make Et the Extraterrestrial, sometimes referenced as

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Speaker 1: Is on There, Combat Is On There. Plus, the Atari

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Speaker 1: no worries. You could go out and buy a Harmony cartridge.

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Speaker 1: This is one that's created by hobbyists, and this cartridge

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Speaker 1: plugs into Atari twenty six hundred just as any video

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Speaker 1: making a backup of your media. That's legal. Just taking

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Speaker 1: any realm not legal, because that's essentially piracy. The other

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Speaker 1: This does not mean that the games are suddenly going

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Speaker 1: but it will mean that they're playable. I think it's

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Speaker 1: I had Pitfall or River Raid, because those games slap.

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Speaker 1: This week, Sony gave us more information about the PlayStation Portal,

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Speaker 1: It has an eight inch screen with ten ADP resolution.

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Speaker 1: Orland of Ours Technica points out, this is pretty disappointing

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Speaker 1: since you can already get the PS five Remote Play

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Speaker 1: You get your own DIY portal that way. Plus, hey,

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Speaker 1: so that you understand what it can do, what it

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Speaker 1: course talking about the ARST that stands for the abrasion resistant,

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Speaker 1: so some folks in China developed this material using a

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Speaker 1: to abrasive treatments. They use sandpaper and a knife and

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of jokes I could make about this,

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Speaker 1: but the innovation has some pretty cool implications. A toilet

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Speaker 1: bowl that is resistant to stuff sticking to it will

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Speaker 1: be easier to clean and to keep clean, and it

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Speaker 1: could require less water for fleshing, which is a big

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Speaker 1: deal with conservation efforts. So maybe in the future we'll

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Speaker 1: see most toilets made from material like this. That'd be

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Speaker 1: pretty slick. Okay, now for article recommendations where you're not

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Speaker 1: on this show. So first up, Ashley Belanger of Ours

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Speaker 1: Technica has an article titled YouTube may face billions in

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Speaker 1: fines if FTC confirms child privacy violations. So Berlanger details

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Speaker 1: how some advocacy groups say YouTube has failed to prevent

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Speaker 1: while YouTube executives say the allegations are based on an

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Speaker 1: the piece. It's very well written and explains the issue well.

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Speaker 1: Next up is another Ours Technica article, this one by

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Speaker 1: Ron Amadeo, and it's titled Project Muhan is Google and

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Speaker 1: really more about how the engineers who are working on

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Speaker 1: various Google AR and VR projects have encountered lots of

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Speaker 1: internal obstacles while doing their work, mostly stemming from management

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Speaker 1: that has failed to settle on a solid plan of action.

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Speaker 1: Both articles are a great read, and as always, I

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Speaker 1: nor to Ours Technica itself. And that's it for the

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Speaker 1: Tech News for Thursday August twenty fourth, twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: I hope you are all well, and I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you again. Really soon. Tech Stuff is an iHeartRadio production.

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